Board Thread:Pokémon Help/@comment-31796688-20170906111522/@comment-31900381-20170912013451

Silverwolf0618 wrote: Ninjawarrior93 wrote: Silverwolf0618 wrote: Ninjawarrior93 wrote: Silverwolf0618 wrote: I was thinking, for example, my Gardevoir is weak against Ghost, Poison, and Steel, I search Gardevoir up, and see that she has moves good against all of those types, but I want both draining kiss and moonblast, so I give up focus blast because I have three pokemon with Brick Break the whole point of luring can be to cover your own weaknesses, but coverage moves aren't 100% always necessary since you can just switch if you predict your opponent to switch into a particular mon that works well against your current mon. draining kiss is not really necessary on gardevoir anyway, why are you running it? I want a way to heal my Gardevoir in Battle Colosseum, and heal it without potions(get a wild encounter, use draining kiss, exit)  I get that you want Gardevoir to heal but a mega or non-mega Gardevoir without any bulk investment shows no value in having to run a healing move. You'd still die easily or instead of being able to fire off a much more valuable move in situations. You can always get a wish passer/healing wish user instead. (this is in Battle Colosseum context)

I do get what you mean by being able to run a healing/damaging move for adventure mode though, at least. But I would say that in all honesty you shouldn't be mixing competitive and adventure movesets together. well, I don't like the fact that healing wish kills the user, and draining kiss, even though it only does 50 damage, I always use it when it's super effective, and also, once psychic in the Battle Colosseum one shot a full health Talonflame, why? However, Draining Kiss is probably good and used in Adventure, as NinjaWarrior stated, but there's many other better moves that should be used. In PVP, Draining Kiss should be replaced by Moonblast for higher power. Even if there is no form of recovery, many more people succeed without Draining Kiss on their Gardevoir than with. However, it's your choice.

Also, it depends what Pokemon uses Psychic to kill Talonflame. If they setup before or have high Special Attack, that's probably the reason why. Talonflame's best stat is Speed, but the rest are in the low 70's;it's special defense is 69. So even if they don't have that high of Special Attack, it's not that hard to KO a Talonflame.